Author: Jeremy M. Wilson Erin Dalton
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: responses, considerations, markets, ohio, trafficking, human
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833042963
ISBN-13: 9780833042965

Human trafficking has garnered a significant and growing amount of attention from the U.S. government since the 1990s, culminating in the passage of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000. There is also a growing body of research on human trafficking, but most of it has focused on trying to show that human trafficking is a problem. Wilson and Dalton explore the extent and characteristics of concrete cases of human trafficking in Columbus and Toledo, Ohio, as well as the awareness of and response to the problem by the justice systems and social service provider communities in th

Author: Sherwood Anderson
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, ohio, winesburg
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN-10: 0451529952
ISBN-13: 9780451529954

Inspired by Anderson’s Midwestern boyhood and his adulthood in early 20th-century Chicago, this volume gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Defying the prudish sensibilities of his time, Anderson embraced frankness and truth. Here we meet all those whose portraits brought the American short story into the modern age.

Author: Gail L. Zellman Michal Perlman
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implementation, states, issues, lessons, learned, pioneer, five, quality, care, rating, improvement, systems, child
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045512
ISBN-13: 9780833045515

As demand for child care in the United States has grown, so have calls for improving its quality. One approach that has been gaining momentum involves developing and implementing quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs), multi-component assessments designed to make child-care quality transparent to child-care providers, parents, and policymakers. QRISs provide simple, independent public ratings of child-care quality along with feedback, technical assistance, and improvement incentives. QRIS supporters posit that these systems can inform parental choice and motivate and support quality im

Author: Michael Jay Friedman
Publisher: Bureau of International Information Programs
Keywords: economy, outline
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2009-10-31
eBookDB-ID: MX00000009

Outline of the U.S. Economy (2009)Michael Jay Friedman, Bruce Odessey (Editors)Publisher: Bureau of International Information Programs, Published: September 24, 2009Pages 134STAFFEditor in Chief: Michael Jay FriedmanManaging Editor: Bruce OdesseyDesign: David HamillGraphs: Vincent HughesPhoto editor: Maggie SlikerFRONT COVER: top illustration © Dave Cutler / Stock Illustration Sourcebottom illustration  Jane Sterrett / Stock Illustration SourceABOUT THE AUTHORThis edition of Outline of the U.S. Economy has been completely revised by Peter Behr, a former business editor and reporter f